Announcing “HTML 6”, the New Version of the Web

1 April, 2015, Tel Aviv, Israel: Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the immediate availability of the new version of the web — HTML 6 — pronounced “HTML Sicks [sic]” with the motto “HTML 6 is sick!”. “We concluded that the previous version of the World Wide Web’s standards suite, HTML5, has exceeded its flexibility and usability, and we need to start over”, said Tim Berners-Lee, the director of the W3C.

HTML Sicks will offer many exciting new features and innovations over HTML5 that will make the lives of web developers easier than ever before. Among these new features are:

The markup will be converted from being SGML/XML-like to being JSON-like.

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